Phillips area fishing report for August 19, 2013

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Written by

John Carlson

Crappie action has been the talk of the shop this week, they have been hanging around mid lake mud flats with some fish coming off of cribs. Slip bobbers, jig and minnow and jig and plastics have all been taking crappie.

The perch and bluegill are hanging around the cribs and any deep wood or other structures that you may find. We have been getting gills out to 20 feet of water and perch even deeper. I have been using a 1/16oz jig with a chunk of crawler on it.

When I have kids in the boat I just get over the top of the structure and let them drop a plain hook and split shot straight down with a crawler and tell ...